Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Apr 6
th, 2014 at 7:10am:
Bobby. wrote on Apr 6
th, 2014 at 6:53am:
Armchair_Politician wrote on Apr 4
th, 2014 at 9:10am:
Not necessarily - you can go with a reduction in services. Seriously, how do you expect to have services if taxes aren't collected to pay for them?
What about a lowering the costs for services?
ie
paying public servants less money.
Reduce all public servant wages by 10% to 25% -
whatever is required to reduce costs.
The problem with our society is that the people at the coal face actually
making money in real businesses are the only ones paying real taxes -
all the others are like parasites sucking their blood.
Here we go again. The majority of public servants earn less money than anyone else. Teachers, cops, council workers, road workers, nurses, etc . . . .
SOB
No they don't - public servants are on a good wicket.
Private industry - the people actually making the money -
are paid less & less due to unemployment -
it's an employers market.
Public servants are roaring ahead of the private sector.
If a public servant lost their job they would have to accept far less money from private industry.
The real problem is the power of public service unions.
The Govt. doesn't want to take them on -
because Tony Abbott now & Kevin Rudd/ Gillard in the past are all gutless.
Imagine if Abbott told public servants that they would all have to accept a 10% pay cut to save his budget?
There would be wide spread strikes & chaos.
Public servants are paid out of borrowed money.